Waste-Bin: A smart use of solid waste

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January 1, 2020
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January 18, 2020
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Waste-Bin: A smart use of solid waste

Mr. Md. Fahim Azraf Khan, one of our very talented faculty members in the Department of Civil Engineering, UITS, has been featured on ‘The Daily Star’ on 3rd January 2020. Mr. Md. Fahim Azraf Khan and his team came up with the concept of changing the destination of the wastes from landfill sites to the waste recycling factories.
The team Waste-Bin were one of the ten champions in the Student to Startup competition in 2019, sponsored by the ICT Ministry of Bangladesh. “We have been rewarded with BDT 10 lakh for our project and we are working with this fund,” said Fahim. Through countless nights of brainstorming and perseverance, their idea made it into the top 70 teams in the world out of more than 3000 participants. They also participated as an SDG 12 talent at the UNLEASH Innovation Lab, in China.

They have also made it as the Champions of the regional round of TECHFEST-2018 and secured the Runners up position in the Ideate segment of TechFest IIT Bombay, in 2018, in India. While working in this field, the team members also shared the obstacles they had faced. “It was not so easy to motivate the restaurant owners to take a stand against pollution. Getting access to our potential clients was difficult,” said Fahim.

DNCC and DSCC handles waste by dumping them and acquiring more land in this process. Liquid waste from municipalities and industries are being treated at “Pagla and Dasherkandi” (under construction) treatment plants. However, solid waste often goes unnoticed. Team Waste-Bin provides the solution of reusing solid organic wastes as much as possible and does not encourage waste to remain stagnant in an open environment. They hope to stop land degradation and contribute to the national economy and energy industry through waste recycling as well.